Bloomberg plans convention 'Links'

8/8/12 10:42 AM EDT

A rendering of the Bloomberg Link headquarters in Tampa, Fla.

Bloomberg is planning to make an unprecedented investment in this year's political conventions.

Later today, Bloomberg will announce that it will create a "Bloomberg Link" headquarters nearby both the Republican and Democratic convention centers in Tampa and Charlotte, bringing in business and political leaders for at least 40 panels and briefings on business and policy issues. The spaces, modeled on Bloomberg LP headquarters in New York, will include open floor plans and virtual fish tanks.

Anchors and reporters for Bloomberg TV, including Charlie Rose, will conduct interviews from the Bloomberg Link headquarters, and many of the panels and briefings will be streamed online.

UPDATE (11:03 a.m.): More from the press release, which has just been pushed out: Bloomberg is sending "more than 90 reporters, editors, analysts and producers from across Bloomberg LP [to] the conventions, double the number sent to Denver and Minneapolis in 2008."